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A Page of Opinion:

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Vol. 83

This is our view:

To Prevent Criminal Waste

Over the last week end the Hoover Commission turned in its final report on reorganization of federal administration. Judging by headlines, the American press and public gave it less attention than the latest ‘“whodonit.” Yet this effort represents a magnificent program for improving their government. Adoption of these reforms is more than a matter of preventing billion-dollar waste; it is a matter of preventing the criminal waste of this unique opportunity to make democracy work more successfully.

When again can Americans hope for this conjunction of advantages in a plan to reform the government: A nonpartisan pfoject, initiated by Congress, headed by a former Republican President and indorsed by an incumbent Democratic President, representing two years’ work by a staff of 500 people, including top-rank executives in the fields of business, public service, and the professions, and directed by a man whose skill and experience in administrative organization has won worldwide recognition.

It is not going to be easy to simplify and dramatize this massive, complica= ted body of information and recommendations. This newspaper hopes to do its part in helping the public to understand the major purposes and methods. Success will also require continuing insistence on action. We intend to keep this reform steadfastly in the forefront of discussion until its principal objectives are attained.

The greatest business in the world—the conglomerate of federal administrative agencies—has, like Topsy, “just growed.” As Mr. Hoover says, it is like a forest of lean-tos around the presi« dency. In the last 20 years, it has increased four times in size and 12 times in cost. Only 10 per cent of it is in Washington. The commission - estimates that every present federal service—it did not attempt to say any service is unnecessary—can be performed with a 10 per cent reduction in personnel. Savings are estimated at from $3, 000,000,000 to $5,000,000,000.

But any study of the commission’s work quickly corrects the impression that it was simply trying to save mon= ey. Its proposals are directed toward making government more effective. A government that will carry out the will of Congress and the people more responsibly and responsively is the aim. The commission remarks that efficiency in itself is no guarantee of democratic government, but that “the highest aims and ideals of democracy can be thwaited through excessive administrative costs and through waste, disunity, apathy, irresponsibility, and other by-pro-ducts of inefficient government.” Already vested interests are building backfires against the commission’s proposals. The battleground is Congress, and minority groups of every type are already bombarding the Capitol with pleas to make one agency or another “untouchable.” One senator had 2,000 letters objecting to any effort to consolidate the construction agencies in one place. Mr. Hoover points out that even the American Bankers Association is opposing changes in the handling of federal finances.

Much of the necessary reform can be achieved by presidential order under the reorganization authority Congress appears about to grant. But further action by Congress will also be required in practically every field. ”

We do not urge blind or blanket acceptance of the Hoover Commission’s proposals. They should be examined thoroughly. But on their face they offer so much in the way of reasonable, logical, and businesslike reform that the public can safely put the ‘burden of proof on those who would block them. —Christian Science Monitor.

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Thursday, June 9, 1949

Well sir, the circus is coming to town Monday, which will be the first time such an, attraction has hit Ligonier in thirteen long years. .

Like all the rest of the kids, I’'m looking forward to its appearance with eager anticipation for in the entire entertainment world, there is nothing more colorful than the “goings on” under the big top. s

Men all over the country continue to express childish awe of circus life; so much so, in fact, that an organization named “The Circus Fans Association, Inc.”, whereby the awestruck can keep in very close touch with the big top life, flourishes with eager and active members. ' i

This organization is comprised of professional and businessmen, who like the idea of using their spare time talk= ing about circus routine and circus life. They print a magazine called “The White Top” and once every year, they hold a convention where the members dress as clowns, eat in the kitchen tent of some guest circus, fraternize with the performers, canvassmen, ticket sellers, ete., and generally have the time of their life. .

This year they met in Hagerstown, Md., and for their feature attraction, the John Pawling Great London Circus made its American debut.

Now actually, this “Great London” circus is now owned lock, stock and barrel by a full-blooded American named Harold J. Rumbaugh, who owned a large department store in ‘Everett, Wash., and who, up to a few years ago, was an active member in the Fans Association.

Thru his membership, he became bitten to such a degree that he sold his department store, resigned his membership from the amateur group, and bought a half interest in the King' Bros. Circus.

This association continued for a couple of years until the opportunity to buy a circus of his own presented itself, hence the John Pawling Co. It would seem odd that a man owning a circus of his own could possibly resist the pleasure of making that circus his namesake, but not impressario Rumbaugh. He remembered back when a member of the Circus Fans, to the time he had given the name John Pawling to the .elaborate model circus he had spent many leisurely hours building. Model building to secale, incidentally, is one of the outstandng features of- the amateur association. John Pawling was undoubtedly a combination of John Ringling and the Paw Paw Circus,, and it looked extremely “circusy” painted across the front of his model tent. So with the pride of all who create, he kept the name he had so ingeniously created.

To date, we’ve had two members of the John Pawling organization call on us, and of course talking of show business was pleasurable indeed. But James Beach, his general agent, and J. E. Hill, his brigade manager, were gentlemen of the highest order and the hours spent gabbing away about this and that proved to be more than just the normal press agent routine.

Personally, we’re looking forward to Sunday when the big top arrives, but I'll wager a farthing or two that perched with us at a vantage point wiil be several hundred other fans who find the getting ready as interesing as the show itself. 4

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.—Emerson.

Happy are the people whose God is All-in-all, who ask only to bée judged according to their works, who live to love. ~ - And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance for ever. —lsaiah 32: 17. ' - ¥eo — . : In the mental collisions of mortals and the strain of intellectual wrestlifis, not, grows stronger.—Mary B. Eddy.

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GRIDDERS ARE SITTERS

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Lou Little, famous Columbia football coach, has appealed for jobs for football players as baby sitters. “It is no gag,” he says. “I will personally guarantee that any of my players will prove 100 per cent dependable.”

So there, Junior! Behave yourself while momsy and popsy are at the theater tonight or else develop some fast off-tackle plays. i s

Reactions to football players as baby sitters have been varied. At first thought, many parents had difficulty associating ‘Rock-a-bye Baby” and ‘Sleep, Pretty One, Sleep” with “Block that kick!’’ and “Hit that line hard!"’ They found it hard to think of a husky fullback as the best person to handle kids who made up their own rules as the evening went along. " 3

It did not seem to mother that when she asked, “Do you think the baby is all right?” she would find comfort in father’s answer, ‘Yes, my dear. Remember that our baby sitter for tonight booted the longest punt in the 1948 season!”

But on more sober reflection most people decided that, children being the problems they are when mom and pop are out, it might be reassuring to know that they are in the hands of a baby sitter coached in a rugged school and with a good record for victory, on fields wet or dry. Kids are quick to recognize authority. They know when they are up against heavy odds. In the manner and actions of a university grid star, they sense power, speed, determination and the old ‘‘do or die’’ spirit. ‘ s Few children will try to sit up until midnight listening to the radio if the baby sitter is all-American material. ; S . Baby is not going to whip out the airgun around 9:30 and take some pot shots at the old woman across the courtyard, knowing that a great broken field runner is on watch. " i No kid is going to howl for a cooky if it can see in the eyes of the baby sitter the never-yield-an-‘inch spirit of a football man around whose end no opponent made any progress in two seasons. e All in all, parents should feel easy with a football star as a baby .sitter. Even in a home where the kiddies are sure to get rambunctious a crack gridiron man can detect the signals, sense the trick plays and stop the formations. Unless, of course, he is in one of those homes where there are so many children they use the double platoon system. ' : ¢ ¢ Why Fans Go Mad | These days in the video belts where baseball games and horse races are broadcast the same afternoon are proving pretty hectic to sports fans. Trying to follow both is doing the American nervous system no good. We found ourself shouting, ‘‘Slide ya big bum!” at a horse the other day and yelling, “Stop pullin’ his head off,”” at a ballplayer. B

It is all quite confusing. To see both spérts, a video addict has to be pretty fast on the switches. In a 8 stirring ball game it is quite a trick tuning out at the proper moment to catch the horses all set in the starting gate. And in an especially important horse race splitsecond judgment is necessary in deciding when to tune out of the horse oval and into the ball park.

We were watching Elmer Twitchell in such an ordeal recently. The ball game was well under way when it came time for the ponies. It was a tle score. Elmer struggled to keep away from the race broadocast, but couldn’t do it. He suddenly switched into the horse chan-

nel. The skinners were - being saddled in the paddock. Elmer missed one entry. “They must have benched him!” he observed. : B e

He liked a horse on which Arcaro was announced as the jockey. ‘“‘Arcaro!” he exclaimed. *““That’'s poor judgment. They pitched him yesterday.” X

Then while the race track announcer was chatting on generalities, Elmer dove back into the baseball channel. The home team had & man on second, one out and a big hitter up. It added to his pulse beat and general confusion. ““Come on!” he yelled, “Don’t go wide on the turns. Ya can’t lose at the weights!” — Back to the ponies he switched, Just in time The horses broke as one, Elmer liked something called Mike’s Pride.. “Atta baby,” he cried, *“You Bot your stuff today!”

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Why Jesus Died

Lesson for June 12, 1949

THE FACTS of Jesus’ death were simple. They are told in the four Gospels without dramatics and without - tears. Yet the drama is there, stark and terrible; and only the hard of heart can read it without tears. ‘ There is a deeper question than what happened. Why did it happen? The first Chirstians were forced to think about the crucifixion. They all knew it was no legend. It was so. But they were . haunted, as we are, § {"“\\%*s with the question, S b Why? Here was a %&\\ person whose teach- [ i E: ing was truth, % whose touch was S S health, whose life was love. You b would have thought & | the world would T welcome such a Dr. Foreman man, and give him : the highest honors in its power. But instead, all it had for him were nails and thorns and a cross. Why? It God, whg sees all things, knew that even his Son would come to no better end than a death of shame,” why did God allow Jesus to be born, much less send him into the world, the world where the cross was waiting? ) e (T ! No Other End : THERE.W_AS, of course, ‘historical reasons” why Jesus was killed. If we used the words ‘“mur-. dered” or ‘lynched” it would be nearer the truth. Jesus’ death, from one point of view, was both a tragedy and a crime, and the Gospel stories show this. Jesus died because Pilate-was a spineless man. Jesus died because the priests of Jerusalem saw that if this _ man won, they would lose, and - they would commit murder rather than be defeated. Jesus ~closed minds and would not

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ment of the original discharge papers and has unanimously agreed that it must be used”, Mr. Bray said.’ “Each veteran”, he" continued, “should already have recorded his original papers with his ecounty recorder. This protective service is still provided free for each veteran by Indiana law.” - Mr. Bray went into detail on how the bonus administration was taking precautionary measures to protect the veteran’s original papers to be filed with their application forms. He said they would be received by mail, opened, marked with a number and stamped “World War II Bonus Applied For.” : : ‘The papers will then be photoContinued on Page 9

. He .died because Judas was a traitor, because his friends were cowards and even the best of them dared to show their faces only after he was dead. He died because the Jewish people had their minds set on one sort of Messiah, and when Jesus turned out to be quite another sort, they would have none of him. Being altogether the sort of person he was, in that kind of world, at that particular time and place, you could say,” as Jesus himself did, that the Son of Man ‘‘had to” die. (Luke 24:26.) No other end was possible. There was no help for it . » . except to turn coward and hide; and if he had been capable of that, he would not have been the Christ we know at all.

The Plan of God ‘I'IHEN was Jesus simply a victim ' of circumstances? Was he no better than a fly caught in fate’s dark web? Far from it. The Christian church has always believed, even before these stories of the crucifixion were ever written, that the death of Christ was in the plan of God. In fact, it is at the heart of God’s plan for mankind. It is by the death of Christ that “God reconciles man and brings men back to himself. The Christian church believes and teaches that Christ died for us, that is, for you and for me. We believe that this was not simply Jesus’ own idea, something God had not thought of till Jesus suggested it. We believe that this was the intention of God ‘from before the foundation of the world.” The God who is over all, works through all " things, even very evil things, to make his love known. ® » @ “That The World . . : Might Be Saved” MEN had long thought of God as _ living in far-off heaven, seated on a throne, high and lifted up. A just and mighty God, one who cannot be touched with any human weakness, a holy and infinite Lord _ of the universe,—such a God men knew. But on earth there walks and suffers a race of men who are ' slaves of sin, slaves to evil. How can such a God help such men? Not by staying on his throne and hurling down more curses. Only by do- - ing what men would never have guessed God would dare to do—come into this world, himself as a man, translating himself into the life of.man; putting his shoulder ~ under the human load, even bearing “our sins in his own body on the tree” (I Peter 2:24). :

What About the Belmont? AFTER THE RACE at Pimlico and -on the way home we heard no one discussing either the Kentucky Derby or the Preakness. The flow of racing conversation turned in the general direction of the Belmont, to be T run June 11 over @ the mile-and-a-halt E t test, the real test for the three-year-TNI old L % 7 There were three i " ) names that led e most of the comment — Ponder, Capot -and Pales- . tinian, The ftriple AERNERNG e crown for 1049 is now dust and dreams, or such things as dust and dreams are made of. 5 With Ponder in charge of the Derby and Capot on top in the Preakness, it would be no unfair turn of fortune’s wheel to see Palestinian win the Belmont, which he might do. The Bieber-Jacobs horse was finishing close up and strongly in both the Derby and the Preakness and no one can say that Belmont’s longer race will hurt him a bit. o Before the Preakness I happened to run across Warren Wright, the Baron of Calumet. ““The Preakness distance may have been too short for Ponder,” he said. ‘“But 1 honestly think Ponder should win the Belmont. The longer the distance, the better Ponder likes it. He comes from far back, 20 lengths or more, and' he needs running distance to make up this ground.” : Parnell Ben Jones offered no prediction but he admitted that the longer the race the better Ponder would like it—even up to two miles. No one can question the fact that Ponder can handle the route. What about Capot? John Gaver turned in a fine job of having Capot in perfect shape for both the Derby and the Preakness, When a horse breaks a track record, running against the time set by such horses as Whirlaway, Count Fleet and Citation, he must be moving in a hurry. Capot was leading at the mile and three-sixteenths in both the Derby and the Preakness. He had the continued speed of the field. But what about a mile and a half? This is something else again. That extra quarter can be a heavy test unless the race is slowly run,

Palestinian has shown both speed and stamina in his last three races —the Wood, the Derby and the Preakness. His record is 2-3-2, being extremely close to winning on two._ occasions. Ponder’s most recent marks are 1-5. Capot’s last three are 3-2-1. Palestinian, like Capot and Ponder, is also an improving horse. Palestinian has had enough speed to run with anybody. He has been coming on, cutting away ground, in his last three big races. Capot had to fight bravely and desperately to keep his head lead at Pimlico and I don’t think an extra 16th of a mile would have bothered Palestinian in the slightest. He is both fast and strong. The Belmont will have all this—plus Sun Bahram, Noble Impulse and others. Old Rockport? Rocky seems to be slipping instead of getting better. He hasn’t had it since he left California, although as able a trainer as Ben Jones still believes he hasn’t run his race. : % B » % = More Games Than One A day or two ago we ran into Ralph Kercheval, now in charge of Alfred Vanderbilt’s racing farm. How many remember that more than 10 years ago Kercheval was one of the greatest kickers college football ever knew? Many wellknown pro coaches have tangled in arguments as to whether Kercheval ‘or Ken Strong was the greater allaround kicker. Shipwreck Kelly, another Kentuckian, was always a Kercheval booster. Ralph had full early faith in Vanderbilt’s Loser Weeper, winner recently of the Metropolitan. “Loser Weeper has improved as much as any horse I know,” Kercheval said before that race. : As far as racing goes, Sammy Renick has gone out for the versatility record. Sammy started as a rider—one of the best. Then he began as a racing owner and now is involved in the television section, where he is one of the season’s video hits. ‘“No,” Sam said recently, “I've never tried training. I may take a shot at that later.” 2 . , L Santhan The two big leagues today, plus has Merriman, & brilliant back at WA 2-pounde: meug: m Indiana stars. *The of the Pirates. Most o “m ‘doing wall A 1 Bowl 1 L e %?@w "f-“»' ."‘ -lu-fu** ; ~flz;.« :Zf. :‘;‘ Ni“ sEp ,-,v,-;., b -e IO |OB - K B seRM S O R S o